one of i don't know how many

Whoa! Finally got to write on my blog after a long time. These work loads and responsibilities make you nothing less than a machine. Being human is becoming a challenge day by day. Anyways, from here on I am starting this new label 'lyrical excerpts' wherein I would be taking some lines or paras from the songs I liked or listened to. It can be of any language or context, all I share is the way it was portrayed or what those lines mean to me. I am starting off with a few lyrics that i can remember as of now. Here we go...................


1. Your body is a wonderland by John Mayer

Something 'bout the way the hair falls in your face

I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillowcase

You tell me where to go and

Though I might leave to find it

I'll never let your head hit the bed

Without my hand behind it

This is a very beautiful number and perhaps a John Mayer signature. The way he describes the sensual features of the fairer sex in the start of this song is worth mentioning (porcelain skin, candy lips, bubble gum tongue). The above mentioned part however describes the concern, the empathy and the love in a very subtle fashion and leaves the listener spell bound(at least I was).

2. Title track of the movie Kaminey

क्या करें ज़िन्दगी इसको हम जो मिले

इसकी जान खा गए रात दिन के गिले

कभी ज़िन्दगी से माँगा पिंजरे में चाँद लादो

कभी लालटेन देके कहा आसमा पे टांगो

This is a very slow and smooth ballad that runs in the background when it is played in the movie. This song has got a lot of depth in terms of the music and the lyrics. It reflects pretty straight forwardly the hardships faced and humongous efforts put in to live and not just exist. This reminds me of the quote "maturity is said to be achieved only when we accept life as full of compromises!". Tough to decipher but true when understood.



3. You'll never know by MLTR

Take a look around this lonely place

Where a mask is worn on every face

And painted lips gently kiss

The end of their cigarettes

This world is dressed in such finess

To cover all the emptiness

We're standing here in between

The pages of a magazine

Although I am not a great admirer of MLTR (Michael Learns to Rock) simply because of their monotony and utter lack of diversity, I enjoy this particular number however. I actually started relating to this song until lately because the lyrics grow onto you slowly yet steadily, are very compelling and make you ponder about the false hoods of this life and how we all tend to run marathons despite being blind folded. And yeah painted lips kissing the cigarettes hints towards the glamor and bling that every young and old is fascinated with and how we go through this voyage called life all alone despite being in a caravan of some sort.